Key Figures

Paul Strand

1. 1936 Strand joined with Berenice Abbot to establish the Photo League in New York
2. Strand was the first photographer to achieve
a really decisive break with pictorialism and apply some of the lessons of the new modern art to photography.
3. Paul Strand was born in New York and attended the Ethical Culture School where his teacher was Lewis Hine.
4. Strands later work moved toward a documentary approach, attempting to encapsulate a feeling a place and its people in a body of work, published in book form. The most successful of these dealth with rural communities such as the Hebridean Islands or a village in the Italian South.
5. Strands work was published in the last two issues of Camera Work and the pictures marked a turning point for photography.

Laslo Moholy-Nagy

1. Teacher at the Bauhaus School in Germany.
2. Establishes the New Bauhaus at the Chicago Institute of Design.
3. Used straight photography and photomontage.
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